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Or when you used real VT320s to configure devices, switches or talk with things in general. ...or written code to do the same, albeit programmatically.
by bayindirh 3y ago
Or when you used real VT320s to configure devices, switches or talk with things in general.
...or written code to do the same, albeit programmatically.
- baz00 3y agoOr had to crack open the vt320 and fix it with the service manual and a soldering iron!
- yetihehe 3y agoI had to connect to a cisco router with a serial dongle (window->usb->serial->cisco) not that long ago. After successfully configuring, I could change configuration in the same exact way going over network (window->encryption->tcp->ethernet->decryption->cisco), but underneath, it's all teletypes talking to each other[0]. [0] https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs81n/command.txt https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs81n/command.txt
- bayindirh 3y agoI can understand. We still have a drawer full of different console cables with a couple of USB-RS-232 converters. Our tradition during new hardware installs, yelled through the datacenter over CRAC, wind and fan noise: A: You said blue one, but it's not connecting to $NETWORK_DEVICE B: Try the other, slightly darker blue one, with the sticker XYZ. That's the one I used IIRC. A: Oh, OK.
- bityard 3y agoMy $work has an R&D lab with hundreds of the enterprise/carrier network appliances we sell, and ALL of the automation for the whole thing happens over RS-232 serial.
- dboreham 3y agoVT320 would'av been a luxury fur us.